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Ukraine and Italy are interested in development of cooperation and sharing hybrid warfare experience. Defence Minister of Ukraine General of the Army of Ukraine Stepan Poltorak said this after a meeting with Italian Defense Minister Roberta Pinotti, the press service of the Defence Ministry of Ukraine reported.

The Russian side is not interested in reaching peace in eastern Ukraine, it wants to exert control. Therefore, Ukraine has no other way round but to seek peace through strength, not appeasement. President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said this while delivering the speech at the Royal Institute of International Affairs Chatham House in London, Ukrinform reports.

Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine (NSDC) Oleksandr Turchynov said that he had not consulted in the spring of 2014 on the beginning of the Anti-Terrorist operation (ATO) in the east of the country.

Since the beginning of the announcement of the Anti-Terrorist operation (ATO) in the east of Ukraine on April 14, 2014, more than 2,600 military personnel have been killed, the Defense Ministry spokesman for ATO issues Andriy Lysenko has said.

Russia is trying to use ethnic groups living in Ukraine to promote national autonomies, head of the SBU Security Service of Ukraine Vasyl Hrytsak said at a security conference in Kyiv March 17, according to UNIAN.

Russia-backed militants launched 83 attacks on positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in ATO area in Donbas over the past day. One Ukrainian soldier was killed. This is reported by the ATO press center.

Ukraine is fulfilling all its international obligations on the disengagement of heavy weapons, but faces provocations, Ukraine's representative in a security subgroup of the Trilateral Contact Group Yevhen Marchuk has said.

Ukraine's Security Service has accused Russian hackers of targeting its power grid, financial system, and other infrastructure with thousands of attacks and a new type of virus that attacks industrial processes.

The situation in the eastern Ukraine war zone remains tense, as Russia-backed militants keep attacking Ukrainian army positions along the contact line in violation of the truce. The separatists launched 52 attacks on the government troops in the past day, army operation press centre reported on Wednesday.

During shelling of Avdiyivka in Donetsk region by Russian occupation forces in late January and early February more than 300 residential buildings were damaged and the city was left without heat and water for almost two weeks, first deputy parliament speaker and representative to the humanitarian subgroup of the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) Iryna Gerashchenko has said.